101 Reasons to Stop Writing

It’s my birthday, and I’m feeling generous, in my own way. Here’s a bonus Demotivator, to help put your potential in perspective.

ASPIRATION
You will never be this good. You’re not even Titus Andronicus good, much less Hamlet good.

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Original engraving by Samuel Cousins (1849).

I could just tell you how old I am, but where’s the fun in that. How about you tell me how old you think I am, chronologically or mentally. Or write a short bio about my background, and how I came to write 101 Reasons.

(You can be as nasty as you like about me, but negative remarks about my family will be deleted, and your IP address banned from even viewing the site.)

Here’s a quick poll, for those of you put off by wolf’s brilliant entry, or just too lazy to comment:

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So, the consensus is that I’m 36, by a narrow margin. As Stephen Colbert would say, the market has spoken, it must be true. Do you think I should have put my real age as one of the options?